[ SECRET POST #1950 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1950 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 122 secrets from Secret Submission Post #279.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 2 - repeat ], [ 2 - spambots ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[velvet-mace.livejournal.com]

Obviously I don't know what you are doing, but I can give you a check list of things that I know will keep people from clicking on your fic and thus giving you any kind of feedback.

1) Are you paragraphing correctly: ie, two hard returns between each paragraph, otherwise leave the return key alone. Nothing turns people off faster than a big block of text with no clear paragraphs or something that looks like poetry (unless it's meant to be poetry).

2) Are you using non standard colors or fonts? People aren't going to read something that is difficult to read or obnoxious to the eyes.

3) Are you turning people off with your header? This includes zany notes, apologies, weird capitalization, spelling, or grammar errors, and summaries that don't give the reader any idea of what the story is about.

4) Is your fic full of spelling and grammar errors?

5) Is your fic a complete story? If it's only the start of a story, people will wait for something to happen before commenting.

6) Do you have a hook in your first paragraph. A hook is something that grabs the readers attention and hooks into their emotions. Skip the paragraphs of dull scene setting and back story, you can put them in later. Get to the action immediately.

7) Do you have a mix of character interaction, thoughts, emotions, descriptive setting and action? If your fic concentrates on one (say takes place in one person's mind while they mull over things) the reader will grow irritated at the lack of the other things.

8) Has this story already been told before? If you are relying too much of fandom cliches and familiar tropes, it might not seem original enough for readers to deem it worth commenting on.